I'm a victim of mindless updating (yum update). Basically my Radeon Mobility 200G isn't supported by the latest build (red vert lines, ATI says nolonger supported). I have the free driver going but I'm already missing compiz and preformance. Where can I turn to for a previous release of flgrx?

Thanks

leigh123linux

10th February 2009 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by beaker_
(Post 1163952)

Hi Guys

I'm a victim of mindless updating (yum update). Basically my Radeon Mobility 200G isn't supported by the latest build (red vert lines, ATI says nolonger supported). I have the free driver going but I'm already missing compiz and preformance. Where can I turn to for a previous release of flgrx?

Leigh,
The first time i installed F10 and tried your instructions it worked fine! But that was the only time it did! For various reasons i had to format my pc and when i installed F10 again ....and followed the same instructions again it did worked. I tried again and again but no luck!!!

Im new to F10 and Linux but i dont understand how it worked just once and never again.
Any ideas?

erosfedora

12th February 2009 02:03 PM

hey mate ...? I am using fedora 10 ...but it's X86_64........
i mean 64 bite ....
do i install the driver like what you have shown on the top ...
or ,do i need to changer the end of step 1".i386" to ".x86_64" ???
or other method ?????
your "HOWTO FOR F10"
step 2: what do you mean by 'uname -r' ????
and step 3 : what do you mean by "nopat " and "nomodeset"???
"and add this "nopat" to the kernel arguments.

Optional (in case libdrm change breaks things due to relationship with KMS):
add "nomodeset" to end of kernel arguments

"

i cannot do anything without ATI driver ..
I am waiting for you reply ? thank you
if it's covenient ...can you send you reply to : eros.left@gmail.com

fanos27

12th February 2009 04:09 PM

Ok guys it worked for me again!

Steps taken:
A. First Step: Followed Leighs instructions (thanks man you are a legend)

Or did you have to run it twice to get things working?
Edit: Symptoms of this "not working" may be the black screen problem while using an older card (X600 or less) - if you have this problem and run the above again, does it fix the problem?

erosfedora

13th February 2009 12:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ard Righ
(Post 1165266)

Yes.

No.

This is a command you type in the command line. It gives you a result, which tells your computer which version to use.
but i use 'uname -r' it says ....not found .....
there is only /boot/initrd-2.6.170.25.7.img ??????

These are put into the grub.conf file - file located at /boot/grub/grub.conf on your PC.

grub.conf ...i opened it ...but ....add it to where which line ???

You should be OK without using these, you can add them if your video does not start.
add the to where

Same as above, these are for the grub.conf file, but may not be required.

which ?????

Ard Righ

14th February 2009 12:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by erosfedora
(Post 1165557)

which ?????

On the end of the 'kernel' line.

Just add the commands you want to the end of the line.

beaker_

15th February 2009 05:58 PM

My old R200 was dropped with the last fglrx driver and so I reverted to the radeon driver. If anyone's interested these options (man radeon) give decent preformance but at 400fps it's 1/3 of fglrx.

I spent surfing about three days, but I failed to find any working solution over the Internet .
I will appreciate any aid and ideas.

spidy333

18th February 2009 01:30 AM

I have fedora 9 installed and I followed this guide.. but after reboot it crashes to console. I tried "fglrxinfo" and an error message comes up. then I tried "startx" and this is the error log it has given..